United States v. Carr
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming. This was an action by the United States against Thomas J. Carr, Charles F. Miller, Luke Voorhees, Elias W. Whitcomb, and John W. Collins, on the official bond of said Carr as United States marshal, wherein tbe other defendants were sureties. Defendants’ answer claimed credits for certain fees and other compensation as due said marshal.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wyoming. This was an action by the United States against Thomas J. Carr, Charles F. Miller, Luke Voorhees, Elias W. Whitcomb, and John W. Collins, on the official bond of said Carr as United States marshal, wherein tbe other defendants were sureties. Defendants’ answer claimed credits for certain fees and other compensation as due said marshal. The circuit court, on trial without a jury, allowed part of said credits, and rendered judgment for the United States for the residue of the amount claimed. The United States brings…
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, District Judge.
This was a suit by tbe United States upon the official bond of the United- States marshal for the territory of Wyoming, which was executed by the marshal and his sureties, the defendants in error, on the 23d day of August, 1886. For a breach of the bond, tbe government alleged that tbe marshal bad failed and refused to pay over to the proper accounting officers of the treasury department of the United States the sum of $773.11, which was the property of the United States, and which it was his duty as marshal to so pay. The defendants admitted the receipt *803by the marshal…
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